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Civilizations rise and Civilizations fall, but who will be the greatest Civilization of all!!!! Hopefully (or sadly?) there are no programming errors in this week's episode. Our Quartet brings Mosaic: A Story of Civilization to the table. It was designed by Glenn Drover and published in 2022 by Forbidden Games. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop...

This week we're playing Mind MGMT: The psychic Espionage Game by Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim and published by Off The Page Games. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com . Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more games!

... to prove you're not a robot! Cells Interlinked Within Cells. You've passed your replicant test so you can pick up your bonus! What's that you say? You might be a robot? Well, whatever, a download is a download. This week we're playing Bot Factory by Vital Lacerda and should be publishing next year in 2023 by Eagle-Gryphon Games. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email u...

This week, Kiwi travels alone with a super secret message, that some how everyone knows about! He's playing Spire's End: Hildegard by Greg Favro in 2022 and published by Favro Ventures, LLC. Don't worry, the only person who had some of the story ruined will be Eric, who had to edit the episode! Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com . Plea...

These Persian rugs aren't going to make themselves. So let's send out those apprentices and start weaving! This week, the group is back together and we're playing Tabriz from Crafty Games, designed by Randy Flynn and publishing next year in 2023. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com . Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until...

It's really hard to come up with a generally family friendly joke and episode title for something like cults. So ... I'm just going to avoid it all together and tell you that this week, bP and Kiwi try to find out who the best cult leader is in CULTivate, designed by Austin Foss, Jenna Radtke, and Jake Sells and published in 2021 by Pops and Bejou Games! Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @Fi...

Unless you have an emulsifier like an egg or something, and then you can get them to combine. But that has nothing to do with this game, it's just what you get when Kiwi is going to hear it for the first time when it publishes just like all the other fans out there! This week, Kait and Eric and maybe others (who knows) are play The Spill by Andy Kim and published by Smirk & Dagger Games in 2022. P...

Attributed to Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, after hearing reports of Lieutenant Stephan Decatur's raid to burn the captured and grounded USS Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli in 1804. Take a historian and a Marine and have them play a game together based on a historical event that involves Marines and what do you get? Lots of history. Welcome to our a weekly history podcast where we occasi...

This is either a call back reference to a previous episode coupled with a Fast & Furious title pun OORRRRR a game about farts. Either way, you should download it and listen to us this week play Mini Express published in 2021 by Moaideas Games and designed by Mark Gerrits. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com . Please remember to rate, re...

Eric and his gang of usual suspects are up to their usual hijinks and escapades. So join them this week as they play Yura Yura Penguin. Designed and self published by Yabuchi Ryoko in 2019! Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at  firstturntabletop@gmail.com . Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more games!

It's Thunderdome time, so witness us as two men enter and one man leaves! Eric and Kiwi try out the two player game Radlands designed by Daniel Piechnick and published in 2021 by Roxley Games. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at  firstturntabletop@gmail.com . Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more games!

bP and Kiwi's record for losing a cooperative game is 2.5 minutes, it was a game of Pandemic. Listen this week to find out if the pair does any better at Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords. There won't be any spoilers in this game designed by Mike Selinker and published in 2013 by Paizo Publishing. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at  firstturnt...

Is the moon landing fake? Will we ever find out if the moon is made a cheese? Will bP win? Some of these answers you might find the answer to in this week's episode. Kait and Eric are off, so bP and Kiwi come together to play Moon Base by Naotaka Shimamoto, published in 2019 by itten Games. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at  firstturntabletop@gmail.com . Please...

Because it'll hurt more ... you twit! Some classic Alan Rickman right there! This episode was supposed to be another game, but the audio was lost to the horrors of chaos, so we get a semi-deep dive episode with Kait and Eric playing The Adventures of Robin Hood, published in 2021 by KOSMOS and designed by Michael Menzel. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at  firstt...

In a magical land of non-descriptive but emotionally sentient robots, we travel around collecting ideas and electricity as robots are want to do! We're playing Transmissions by Adam West, published in 2022 by CrossCut Games! Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at  firstturntabletop@gmail.com . Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more...

The dog days of summer are coming to an end and we are quickly approaching fall. For those living in areas with trees, they should start their turn to reds, yellows, oranges, and browns. It felt like a great time to try out Momiji this week. Designed by Dario Massarenti and Francesco Testini, published in 2021 by Deer Games. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at  fi...

As the convention closed, and we rested our feet, we sat around the table and talked about our experiences at GenCon 2022 while they were still fresh in our minds. We talk about the games we played, the things we saw, and our general experience at this year's show. In Part 2, we cover the first two days of the convention. Come join us! Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or emai...

As the convention closed, and we rested our feet, we sat around the table and talked about our experiences at GenCon 2022 while they were still fresh in our minds. We talk about the games we played, the things we saw, and our general experience at this year's show. In Part 1, we cover the first two days of the convention. Come join us! Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or emai...

Did you know that Woodrow Wilson signed the act that created the National Park Service on August 25, 1916 but that Yellowstone became the first National Park with an act signed by Ulysses S Grant on March 1, 1872. The service employees employees around 20,000 and has about 280,000 volunteers and last year had almost 300 million visitors? This week, we're playing PARKS by Henry Audubon, published i...

Eric and Kiwi challenge real life dog walker, Kait, to become the most successful and best dog walker in the land! That's right, we're playing Dog Park by Lottie Hazell and Jack Hazell, published in 2022 by Birdwood Games! Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at  firstturntabletop@gmail.com . Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more g...

Kait was off and so the other three hosts decided that this we were going to kill off a relative so that we could inherit the family's abandoned distillery and bring it back to it's former glory. This all makes since 2 of them don't do hard spirits and the other is more of a wine person. But you know, sometimes you gotta try out new things. That's right, I'm sure you have guessed it by now, we're...

 "I saw a wino with a bag of grapes and I was like ... dude, you have to wait!" This week, Paxton and Kiwi provide no wine knowledge what-so-ever to bP, but they do bring some math ability and planning skills, as the three play Viticulture World designed by Mihir Shah and Francesco Tetstini, published by Stonemaier Games in 2022. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us a...

We're in! Let the hacking begin! Zero Cool and Acid Burn are on the job this week, as we blaze through the techno-sphere jumping servers, trashing routers, causing net damage and meat damage galore! It's all just 1s and 0s dude, 1s and 0s! Eric and Kiwi play Android: Netrunner designed by Richard Garfield and Lukas Litzsinger, published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2012. Post your comments to Twitte...

Kait is away, so Eric, Kiwi, and bP head off to discover the "Jersey Cape" this week! We're playing Cape May from Thunderworks Games. It was designed by Eric Mosso and published in 2021. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at  firstturntabletop@gmail.com . Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more games!

"Who's been painting my roses red? WHO'S BEEN PAINTING MY ROSES RED? Who dares to taint  With vulgar paint The royal flower bed? For painting my roses red Someone will lose his head." Eric and his intrepid crew of gamers bring out Paint the Roses by Ben Goldman and published by North Star Games in 2022.  Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at  firstturntabletop@gmail...